diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 8db22efbafc6d3881bc0551fd465cc135b456e9f..b9204c77d3b6070ec27b297cbd3e35d85f40e442 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):
 	  maintainer (gitster@pobox.com) if (and only if) the patch
 	  is ready for inclusion. If you use git-send-email(1),
 	  please test it first by sending email to yourself.
+	- see below for instructions specific to your mailer
 
 Long version:
 
@@ -546,9 +547,27 @@ Gmail
 
 GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
 interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send.  You can however
-use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
+use "git send e-mail" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, or
+use any IMAP email client to connect to the google IMAP server and forward
 the emails through that.
 
+To use "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server,
+edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
+
+[sendemail]
+	smtpencryption = tls
+	smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
+	smtpuser = user@gmail.com
+	smtppass = p4ssw0rd
+	smtpserverport = 587
+
+Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
+following commands:
+
+  $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
+  $ edit outgoing/0000-*
+  $ git send-email outgoing/*
+
 To submit using the IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
 account settings:
 
@@ -564,8 +583,7 @@ You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an err
 that the "Folder doesn't exist".
 
 Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
-following command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts
-folder.
+following commands:
 
   $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send
 
@@ -573,19 +591,3 @@ Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail web
 interface will line wrap no matter what, so you need to use a real
 IMAP client).
 
-Alternatively, you can use "git send-email" and send your patches
-through the GMail SMTP server.  edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your
-account settings:
-
-[sendemail]
-	smtpencryption = tls
-	smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
-	smtpuser = user@gmail.com
-	smtppass = p4ssw0rd
-	smtpserverport = 587
-
-Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
-following commands:
-
-  $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
-  $ git send-email outgoing/*
diff --git a/builtin/show-branch.c b/builtin/show-branch.c
index e20fcf3e935dfafb4e30f24990aa974c8b2f5927..e8719aa9e9f47c30b697332925fcdd206fdfd55c 100644
--- a/builtin/show-branch.c
+++ b/builtin/show-branch.c
@@ -313,7 +313,8 @@ static void show_one_commit(struct commit *commit, int no_name)
 		}
 		else
 			printf("[%s] ",
-			       find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1, 7));
+			       find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1,
+						  DEFAULT_ABBREV));
 	}
 	puts(pretty_str);
 	strbuf_release(&pretty);
diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index aae8e7accc1ff955bd76c62b379b37f343f61cc4..4cd9dacbe8e98d1420ebe1a217b0f927d24d125a 100644
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -150,16 +150,14 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
 
 static int path_outside_repo(const char *path)
 {
-	/*
-	 * We have already done setup_git_directory_gently() so we
-	 * know we are inside a git work tree already.
-	 */
 	const char *work_tree;
 	size_t len;
 
 	if (!is_absolute_path(path))
 		return 0;
 	work_tree = get_git_work_tree();
+	if (!work_tree)
+		return 1;
 	len = strlen(work_tree);
 	if (strncmp(path, work_tree, len) ||
 	    (path[len] != '\0' && path[len] != '/'))
diff --git a/t/t7502-commit.sh b/t/t7502-commit.sh
index 844fb43c6db1ae4e9b8a3cda6156af359e9f639e..95044668ee182fc2c1091fba7680e0576f7854bd 100755
--- a/t/t7502-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7502-commit.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ test_expect_success 'partial' '
 
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'partial modification in a subdirecotry' '
+test_expect_success 'partial modification in a subdirectory' '
 
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -m "partial commit to subdirectory" not &&